Hearing Your Grandkids Shouldn't Cost $5,000.
The average prescription pair runs $4,727 — without insurance, and Medicare usually won't cover it. Since the FDA's 2022 OTC rule, you can skip the clinic, the salesman, and the second mortgage. Audexa is $69.99 a pair — set it yourself at home, send it back if it's not for you.
You're not here because you haven't heard of hearing aids. You're here because someone quoted you thousands — $4,000, $5,000, maybe more — just to hear your own family at the dinner table. And something about that number didn't sit right. "$6,500… I felt I'd been conned."
Here's the part the clinic doesn't lead with: since the FDA's 2022 OTC rule, an adult with mild-to-moderate hearing difficulty can legally buy a hearing device without a prescription, a test, or a salesman. The question isn't whether a hearing aid helps. It's why hearing your grandkids is supposed to cost $5,000 — and what an honest $69.99 alternative actually looks like.





